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Race recap:

The f1 community mourned the loss of Jules Bianchi, who finally succumbed to the injuries he suffered in last year's Japanese Grand Prix. A minute of silence was held before the race start:


For the second race in a row, the Mercedes were beaten off the line by cars behind, both Vettel and Raikkonen in the Ferraris got ahead of Hamilton and Rosberg. Hamilton then ran wide at the chicane and fell down to tenth place. Rosberg did not have the pace or desire to challenge the Ferraris ahead, but the prospect of a great 1-2 for the Italian team was brought to an end when Raikkonen started to experience problems with the hybrid part of his power unit.
The safety car was brought out so marshals could clean up the debris from Hulkenburg's front wing failing:

At the restart, Hamilton collided with Ricciardo's Red Bull at turn 1. The stewards deemed Hamilton was at fault and he received a drive through penalty.
Mercedes had made a tactical error in putting Rosberg on the slower medium tyre when he pitted under the safety car, but even with this disadvantage, he was able to pass the ailing Raikkonen. Rosberg was then put under pressure from Ricciardo. The young Australian took a dive down the inside of the German and the two collided after Rosberg cut back in front of Ricciardo, damaging Ricciardo's front wing and puncturing Rosberg's tyre, ending both drivers chances of winning.

Vettel won, putting him on the same number of career wins as Ayrton Senna. The Red Bulls of Kvyat and Ricciardo were second and third, making it the first podium since Brazil 2013 that a Mercedes team driver has not been on the podium. Verstappen was lucky to get a great fourth for Toro Rosso: the team unusually chose to give him the undercut at the first pitstops to get him ahead of his teammate Sainz and then the stewards were perhaps too lenient in their choice of penalty for Verstappen speeding under the safety car.
Alonso gave McLaren their best result of the season so far with fifth place, and his teammate Button placed ninth.
Hamilton recovered from his various incidents to take sixth, a good result in light of the title race as at one point in the race it looked as if Rosberg was set to take the lead of the championship going into the summer break, but Rosberg's puncture meant he had to settle for eighth place.
The other points finishers were Grosjean in seventh for Lotus and Ericsson in tenth for Sauber.
Both Williams drivers had poor races: Bottas had a couple of collisions with Ricciardo and Verstappen; Massa never recovered from a 5 second penalty for causing the start of the race to be aborted by not lining up in his grid slot properly.
Maldonado kept the stewards busy, earning three penalties in total for crashing with Perez, speeding in the pitlane and overtaking behind the safety car.